Communications 2015

CCFS web resources provide information on background, research and downloadable files of the Annual Report and Research Highlights.

Links to the GEMOC website (http://www.gemoc.mq.edu.au/) provide past GEMOC Annual Reports, updated details on its methods, new analytical advances and software updates (GLITTER), activities of research teams within GEMOC, synthesised summaries of selected research outcomes and items for secondary school resources.

Links to the CET (Centre for Exploration Targeting) website (http://www.cet.edu.au/) provide access to wider information about CET activities beyond its involvement in CCFS and especially the wide base of end-user interaction.

Links to The Institute for Geoscience Research (TiGer) website (http://tiger.curtin.edu.au/) provide information about their facilities, participants and research activities.

Strong industry interaction in CCFS in 2015 ranged from presentations to specific industry groups in their offices to numerous formal and informal workshops at CET and GEMOC, and invited and plenary presentations at peak industry symposia, workshops and conferences nationally and internationally.

The 188 CCFS publications that were published in 2015 are dominantly in high-impact international journals (Thomson ISI); the remainder are in outlets targeted to specific stakeholders (e.g., Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, Economic Geology).

Session Co-Convener:Martin Van Kranendonk - 06i: Modern and Past Microbialites: How do They Form? What Have We Learnt?
Session Co-Convener:William Griffin - 12b: Processes and Deposits of Ultramafic-Mafic Magmas Through Space and Time
Session Co-Convener:Andrew Putnis - 14g: Equilibrium Versus Disequilibrium States in Biologic Hard Tissues and Biomimetic Analogues

Session Co-Convener:Martin Van Kranendonk - 18b: Earth’s Early Crust and the Evolution of Plate Tectonic Processes
Session Co-Convener:Michael Brown - 18e: Models for Continental Growth Four Decades On
Session Co-Chair:Simon Wilde - 18f: Not Just for Geochronology Anymore: What Zircon Chemistry and Geochronology Can Tell Us About Thermal Environments, Fluids and Melts in Silicate Crusts

First ACTER (Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Tectonics and Earth Resources (http://tectonics.curtin.edu.au) annual field workshop - Tectonic History of the South China Block and Approaches for Tectonic Analysis. See workshop report and photos at http://tectonics.curtin.edu.au/events/workshop-153.cfm
Organised by Zheng-Xiang LI(photo Zheng-Xiang Li)

2-11 March 2015

EPS HDR Conference Day

Organised by the MQ Department of EPS featuring presentations and posters from EPS and CCFS MQ PhD students

Sue O’Reilly, Bill Griffin, Zheng Xiang Li and Simon WildeThomson-Reuters Citation Award for outstanding work on the “Tectonic Setting of the North and South China Cratons”, ceremony held at the University of Melbourne on 23 June 2015

Appointed Associate Editor for SEG 2016 Special Publication on Tethys
Appointed Councillor for Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) in 2016-2019

Craig O’Neill

Member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Earth Sciences

Sue O’Reilly

Member, 2015 ERA Research Evaluation Committee
Member Executive Committee, UNCOVER national initiative (Auspices of the Australian Academy of Sciences)
Chair, Academy of Sciences National Committee for Earth Sciences, and Decadal Plan preparation
Elected Member of Council, Australian Academy of Sciences(http://www.mq.edu.au/newsroom/2014/11/14/eminent-geologist-joins-australian-academy-of-science-council/)
Appointed Convenor - Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundary session, IGC 2016

EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS

Acta Geologica Sinica

Li

Acta Geoscientia Sinica

Li

American Journal of Science

Wilde

American Mineralogist

Piazolo

Chemical Geology

Wilde

Cogent Geosciences

O'Neill, Moressi

EGU Journal Solid Earth

Afonso, Schaefer

Exploration Geophysics

Yang

Geology

Wacey

Geodynamics & Tectonophysics

Pisarevsky

Geology

C. Clark

Geosphere

Yuan

GeoResJ

George, Jacob, Schaefer

Journal of the Geological Society, London

C. Clark, Fitzsimons

Journal of Jilin University – Earth Science

Wilde

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Brown

Journal of Petrology

Turner

Journal of Structural Geology

Piazolo

Lithos

C. Clark, Foley, Griffin

Mineralium Deposita

Fiorentini

Nature Science Reports

Wacey

Ore Geology Reviews

Bagas

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

McCammon

Precambrian Research

Barley, Pisarevsky, Van Kranendonk

Scientific Reports<

Piazolo

OUTREACH

Forum

Participant/s

Date

University of Hong Kong – Public lecture on 4D isotopic mapping of the lithosphere

LEAP University Experience Day, Macquarie University - This event is held as part of the LEAP Macquarie Mentoring program. The aim of the day is to bring high school students from refugee backgrounds onto campus to expose them to university life and to demystify the concept of university for them.

VISITORS

CCFS fosters links nationally and internationally through visits of collaborators to undertake defined short-term projects, or short-term visits to give lectures and seminar sessions. Formal collaborative arrangements are facilitated by partnerships in grants with reciprocal funding from international collaborators.

CCFS provides funds to intetnational visitors who will add value to CCFS programs and contribute to the high visibility of research in the Centre. Recipients of 2015 CCFS Visiting Researcher Funds were: